Marco Brambilla is full professor at Politecnico di Milano. He is active in research and innovation, both at industrial and academic level. His research interests include data science, software modeling languages and design patterns, crowdsourcing, social media monitoring, and big data analysis. He has been visiting researcher at CISCO, San Josè, and University of California, San Diego. He has been visiting professor at Dauphine University, Paris.
He is founder of various startups and spinoffs, including WebRatio, Fluxedo, and Quantia, focusing on social media analysis, software modeling, Mobile and Business Process based software applications, and data science projects. He is author of various international books including Model Driven Software Development in Practice (II edizione, Morgan-Claypool, 2017, adopted in 100+ universities worldwide), Web Information Retrieval (Springer, 2013), Interaction Flow Modeling Language (Morgan-Kauffman, 2014), Designing Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan-Kauffman, 2002). He also authored more than 250 research articles in top research journals and conferences. He was awarded various best paper awards and gave keynotes and speeches at many conferences and organisations. He is the main author of the OMG standard IFML.
He participated in several European and international research projects. He has been reviewer of FP7 projects and evaluator of EU FP7 proposals, as well as of national and local government funding programmes throughout Europe. He has been PC chair of ICWE 2008 and ICWE 2021, as well as co-chair of various tracks, conferences and workshops.
He is associate editor of various journals and PC member of several conferences and workshops.